Running For Trevor

7.3 miles around the Orchards in Santaquin, 7:18 pace.  I have absolutely no idea why I was moving faster than normal this morning.  Must have been the beautiful weather.

20 minutes strength training - planks, pushups, biceps

8 miles on the treadmill in 62 min, 1% incline.  Started at 7.4mph and just bumped it up a notch every 10 min. 

I've had an awful eye infection the past 2 days and could not string together more than 2 hours of consecutive sleep last night so I had a feeling that this run was going to be horrible.  I forgot how painful and irritating eye infections are.  Yuck!  I woke up feeling like I got hit by a train but since we were meeting at my house to run I figured the least I could do was roll myself out of bed.  So glad I had people to run with this morning because otherwise I truly would have bailed.  The light in the gym irritates the eye infection terribly but I knew I would be okay running outside in the dark.  Okay what is the point of my ranting?  The morale of my novel is that I had an awesome run and think the run with Jen & Melissa may have cured my eye infection and my terrible mood.  Thank goodness for running! 

8 miles with Jen & Melissa, Santaquin Orchard loop + 2 miles on my own.  First mile was 8:28 and last mile was 6:58.  AP of 7:30 for the 10 miles.  A good and completely impromptu push for the last half of the run.

15 minutes Strength Training.

My eye is still bright red and I look like I got in a fight with a cat and the cat won but it feels much better. :)

PM:  3 miles easy

25 min lower body Strength training

8 incredibly boring miles on the treadmill in 63 min.  Started at 7.4 and bumped the speed up one notch every 10 min until I got all the way to 7.9!

I booked my flight to Phoenix yesterday for the IMS Arizona marathon on February 17th.  Now I just need to decide if I'm going to string together a marathon build up or make the wiser decision and drop down to the half...... 

9.5 treadmill miles.  I am not really training for anything right now but running slow on the treadmill is ridiculously mind numbingly boring so I decided to do 12 x 400 just for fun.  Why not?

3 mile warmup - 8:12 pace

12 x 400 on/off style with equal recovery.  first 4 with 1% incline, next 4 .5% incline, and last 4 0% incline.  On's @ 6:10-5:49 (9.9-10.3) pace and off's @ 8:27 (7.1-7.3). 

9.5 mi in 71 minutes, 7:28 AP.

PM:  4 miles outside easy.  Does anyone down south want to run with me tomorrow morning?  I cannot fathom the thought of another day on the treadmill!

25 minutes upper body weights

8 miles easy recovery run on the treadmill, 2% incline, 63 minutes.

12 miles with Josse in Provo Canyon.  The weather was amazing and I am just really loving running right now.

PM:  After running with Josse I went straight to my sisters to help with her sick kiddos.  I didn't even shower, just changed into dry running clothes.  By the time I got home it was 4pm and since I was still in my running clothes and the weather was amazing I decided to go running. :)  3.2 miles on a perfect (fall?) winter afternoon. 

I am going to wait until 2013 to add any real structure to my running.  I am really just loving running as much or as little as I feel like for the pure joy of running.  I have no idea what pace either of my runs really were today and I really don't care.  No pressure fun runs for 30 more days!